Free Comic Book Day is back!! Before you head to your local comic book store, check out our faves and remember to support your local. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-05-06 10:31:00 UTC ]
Award given for the interactive reconstruction of the moment Israeli forces hit a residential tower block in GazaThe Guardian has won a prestigious Amnesty media award for the interactive reconstruction Countdown to the airstrike: the moment Israeli forces hit al-Jalaa tower, Gaza, showing the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-05-06 10:11:30 UTC ]
In March 2021, my mother, Nancy Bourne, a lifelong nonsmoker, died of lung cancer. Two weeks before that, though, as she cycled in and out of hospital wards, she was on her laptop sending off a flurry of query letters to literary agents asking for their help in selling her first novel. Six... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-06 08:52:38 UTC ]
The pending departure of Unnamed Press executive editor Olivia Taylor Smith for Simon & Schuster is just the latest development for the edgy Los Angeles independent press. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
With all categories except adult fiction posting declines, unit sales of print books fell 6.1% in the week ended Apr. 30, 2022, from the comparable week in 2021, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Booksellers discuss comics’ resurgence in 2021—and how strong sales were hindered by supply chain issues. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
More than a century ago, with a new copyright code set to go into effect on July 1, 1909, The Publishers Weekly devoted nearly four pages to describing the intricacies of the updated plan. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Nicola Yoon sells her first adult novel to Anchor, Melissa Urban takes Whole30 to PRH, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Higher manufacturing and freight costs, and ongoing supply chain and inflationary pressures, resulted in a 16% drop in earnings at HarperCollins for the quarter ended March 31, 2022. Sales rose 5%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
Viola Davis has the #1 book in the country with the memoir 'Finding Me.' Plus Don Winslow's 'City on Fire' heats up our hardcover fiction list, and Alice Oseman's Heartstopper books get a boost from Netflix. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
A tough year for the stock market got worse in April, leading the Publishers Weekly Stock Index, now down to only six companies, to drop 8.8%. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2022-05-06 04:00:00 UTC ]
“No one would know it was us,” the former president said, according to an upcoming memoir written by the former Pentagon chief. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2022-05-06 01:41:29 UTC ]
As book-bannings sweep the United States, two campaigns from the industry demonstrate different styles and tones of response. The post Penguin Random House, Authors Guild on Book Bannings appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2022-05-06 00:17:19 UTC ]
And. And. And. And. And. For whatever reason that specific string of words seems to be enough to permanently brick a Google Docs page. Noted Google's support pages mere hours ago, the poster who seemingly discovered this unusual bug is quick to point out that the series of five conjunctions,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2022-05-05 21:36:09 UTC ]
ANA and 4A's join CIMM to foster transition to 'multi-currency' market for TV and video. Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2022-05-05 20:04:57 UTC ]
A worthy cause for you this Thursday: a bookstore owner’s petition to make Harriet Tubman Day a federal holiday (and the first federal holiday named for an American woman) is at nearly 8,000 signatures, and you can add your name here. The petition was created by Jeannine Cook, owner of Harriet’s... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2022-05-05 16:26:12 UTC ]
‘An Astrologer’s Day’ is a story from the Indian author R. K. Narayan’s 1943 collection Malgudi Days. The Malgudi of the collection’s title is a fictional city in India, where all of the stories in the collection take place. The opening story in the book, ‘An Astrologer’s Day’ is about […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Interesting Literature | 2022-05-05 14:00:07 UTC ]
The "Breasts and Eggs" author delivers another engrossing novel about a woman whose ascetic lifestyle masks a traumatic past. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-05 13:55:46 UTC ]
Lizz Huerta didn't get an MFA, but she did get an education while working on construction sites. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2022-05-05 10:00:00 UTC ]
The far-right lawmaker's history of botching both spelling and facts has many wondering just what's in her book. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-05-05 09:16:38 UTC ]